linux-kernel - slqb enables interrupts very early

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:03:21 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: slqb enables interrupts very early

I've checkout slab-2.6/linux-next and noticed that the interrupts are
enabled very early by accident. Please look at the following call stack:

    start_kernel()
    kmem_cache_init()
    kmem_cache_open()
    down_write(&slqb_lock);
    __down_write()
    __down_write_nested()

Now, __down_write_nested() protects its internal structure the follwing
way:
    spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
    ...
    spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);

so once we return, we return with interrupts on.

Sebastian
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